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dricka

drink/²drɪkːa/

dricka as a verb

Meaning

drink

In Swedish: svälja ner (vätska)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dricka (drink)
Infinitive	att dricka	to drink
Present	dricker	jag dricker
Past	drack	jag drack
Supine	druckit	used after har / hade
Perfect	har druckit	jag har druckit
Past perfect	hade druckit	jag hade druckit
Future	ska dricka	or: kommer att dricka
Conditional	skulle dricka	jag skulle dricka
Imperative	drick!	a command
Present participle	drickande	-ing, used as an adjective
Past participle	drucken	used like an adjective, and agrees like one

Passive (-s form)

Passive of dricka
Infinitive	drickas
Present	dricks
Past	dracks
Supine	druckits

Group 4: strong and irregular verbs. Strong verbs change their vowel and have a supine in -it (skriva, skrev, skrivit); irregular ones such as göra and ha follow no pattern. Both have to be learned one by one. Swedish verbs don't change for person: jag, du, hon, vi and de all use dricker. See the four verb groups explained.

dricka as a noun(en dricka)

Meaning

drink

In Swedish: dryck

Forms

Forms of dricka
Singular, indefinite	en dricka
Singular, definite	drickan
Plural, indefinite	drickor
Plural, definite	drickorna

dricka is an en-word, so adjectives agree with it: en stor dricka, den stora drickan. Check another noun

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dricka in a sentence

dricka vatten
drink water
jag varken röker eller dricker
I neither smoke nor drink
Nej tack, jag dricker inte
No thanks, I don't drink
Vill du ha en dricka?
Do you want a bottle of soda?
Hans favoritdricka var 7 Up
His favorite soft drink was 7 Up
Har du fixat dricka?
Did you get stuff to drink?
Jag står för drickat om du står för maten
I'll provide stuff to drink if you provide food
falla i drickat
fall into the water [the drink]

Words built with dricka

sockerdricka lemonade, soda

Questions

What does dricka mean in English?

dricka means “drink”.

Is it en dricka or ett dricka?

It is en dricka, and “the drink” is drickan.

What is the plural of dricka?

The plural of dricka is drickor, and the definite plural is drickorna.

What is the past tense of dricka?

The past tense of dricka is drack (“jag drack”). The supine is druckit, used in “jag har druckit”.

What is the present tense of dricka?

dricker, the same for every person: jag dricker, du dricker, vi dricker.

Similar words

hälla i sigkröka

Where the course teaches it

Origin

From Old Swedish drikka, from Old Norse drekka, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną.

Nearby common words

dricka is number 444 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

440lätt light, gentle
441peng coin
442reda sort out
443eran alternative form of er (“your, yours”)
445gått walked, gone
446stoppa stop, put
447herr Mr.
448ligga lie

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